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Blockchain Technology in the Insurance Sector Quarterly meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI) Jan 5, 2017 CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY Any use of this material without specific permission of McKinsey & Company is strictly prohibited

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Blockchain Technology in the Insurance Sector Quarterly meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI)

Jan 5, 2017

CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY Any use of this material without specific permission of McKinsey & Company is strictly prohibited

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10 things you should know about Blockchain

▪ Investment in blockchain is gaining momentum (~$1Bn of Venture Capital investment over the last 24 months) and is expected to grow rapidly; the banking industry is expected to spend ~$400MM by 2019

▪ 70% of financial organizations are in the early stages2 of experimentation; most executives expect to see material impact from this technology only in 5+ years

▪ Most of the impact from blockchain in financial services is likely to come from payments, and capital markets. Preliminary sizing of 4 use cases suggest significant value creation - the estimated impact of these use cases alone is $70-$85B but feasibility varies significantly

▪ Organizations can unlock the value of blockchain through a deliberate five-step journey: Education, Strategy, Solution design, Implementation, and Approach

▪ Enabling collaboration, shaping a positive regulatory environment and identifying clear business cases justifying the transition costs will pose the biggest challenges to implementation

▪ By overcoming these challenges, blockchain technology could reach its potential within 5 years

1 Blockchain solutions other than solutions that are purely related to Bitcoin 2 “Wait and see” and Early equity investor stages

▪ However, blockchain is not the silver bullet solution for all the pain points in the industry

▪ Blockchain is a nascent technology with the potential to bring about step-function improvements in efficiency and security to the financial industry - or it could simply be over-hyped and unnecessary

▪ >60 Nascent use cases1 exist across multiple industries with a primary focus in financial services (~40%) and cost reduction (~70%)

What is blockchain?

What is the impact for financial institutions?

What is the implementa-tion level across the industry?

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▪ The success of these investments is highly dependent on the collaboration in an emerging eco-system primarily driven by innovation in the Insurtech and fintech industry

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Although institutions are at different stages of experimentation, most now believe it could take 3-5 yrs for blockchain to have a material impact

% of respondents1

One half of Institutions are in ‘Wait & See’ mode

6

26

18

50

Fully implemented

solution

Early equity investor

Partnership or internal pilot

“Wait and see”

1 N = 35

SOURCE: Based on survey of senior executive leadership in financial institutions, Feb 2016 and May 2016

Increasingly, impact expected to take 5 yrs

% of respondents

Financial technology labs

Venture capital funds/ equity stakes

Internal pilots

Blockchain accelerator programs/ hackathons/ position papers

Fully imple-mented solution Partnering in

a consortium to design blockchain solutions

6

4946

86

140

>5 yrs or never

0 - 18 months

3 – 5 yrs

Feb 20161

May 20162

STATE OF THE INDUSTRY

2 N = 15

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Blockchain could be one of the most disruptive innovations since the advent of the internet

What on earth is a blockchain? How does it work?

1

Electronic message created (e.g.,

transaction details)

Sent to distri-buted nodes with unique crypto signature

Economic race to be first to validate transaction

4

Network repli-cates record

of verified transactions

Block added to all

distributed ledger copies

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3

Confirmation broadcast to rest

of network

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2

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WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN?

▪ A cryptographic or encoded distributed ledger, comprising a digital log of transactions that is shared across a public or private network

▪ Database well suited for applications requiring a rapid, permanent time and date stamp such as: – Payments – Financial asset transfers – Smart Contracts – Ownership splits and notary

services ▪ A technology that brings

substantial benefits in terms of speed, security, convenience and costs

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Core innovation and supporting elements in all blockchains

First ever solution to the double spending problem / data conflict resolution that doesn’t require a central administrator or clearing agent

Core innovation

Solving the double spending problem in this manner provides a decentralized, unbroken historical record of all data transactions

Decentralized solution The randomness of verification agent selection is imperative to maintain the integrity of the database

Process integrity

Messaging system with read-write access protected by cryptographic keys, generated by latest security technology

Data security Valuable Redundancy Multiple copies of the same data across a large network reduces downtime and increases resistance to malicious attack

1 WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN?

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Blockchain technology is applicable across multiple use case categories as a static store of secure information or dynamic store of tradeable information

Needs addressed by blockchain Real world example applications Description

Record keeping

Transactions

▪ Stores of static information

▪ Registry of tradeable information

2

▪ Manage registry of asset ownership

▪ Provide automation of specific assets

▪ Land title ▪ Gift card ownership ▪ Chain of custody

Identity ▪ Securely store, confirm and

distribute identity-related info ▪ Revise personal/ other data

▪ Store bank/ credit card identity info on blockchain to enable user to easily access proof of identity

Static Registry

Smart contracts

▪ Insurance claim payouts ▪ Cash equity trading ▪ Release of new music

▪ Create and execute semi-autonomous contracts on distributed digital platform

▪ Streamlined low transaction settlements to address liquidity mismatches in loan funds

▪ Exchange of physical and digital assets on a digital platform

Payments infrastructure

▪ Peer-to-peer lending through the Bitcoin blockchain, dis-intermediating banks

▪ Efficient payment transfers with lower friction, improved record keeping

Dynamic registry

Verifiable data

▪ Event tickets ▪ Registry of independent artists’ work

Protection of Intellectual property

▪ Store of information and easy access to secure, dynamic information

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2

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WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN?

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Distribution of current non-Bitcoin, blockchain solutions1

Across at least 80 nascent but real opportunities to apply blockchain technology1, nearly one quarter exist in insurance

Number of use cases, % by category

SOURCE: McKinsey Panorama, web search

Idea stage

Commercialized – Not scaled

In development (no output yet)

Tested but not yet commercialized

64

Lifecycle

18

12

0

Commercialized – Scaled2

Revenue

Risk

Cost

47

41

Primary intention3

12 6

1 Blockchain solutions excluding solutions that are purely related to Bitcoin; 2 Annual revenues US$1+ MM 3 In many instances use cases have a secondary intention

Other2

Register of ownership

Consumer

Healthcare

Identity

Arts & Entertainment

Securities

Public Sector

Payments

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0%)

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Insurance

For the Insurance use cases…

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Investment in blockchain has already started to gain momentum and is expected to grow at a very high pace in the near future

SOURCE: AITE Group, Tabb Group, CoinDesk

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e2019 e2018 e2016 2015 2014

…And the banking industry is expected to spend ~$400MM on distributed ledger technology by 2019

Estimated capital market spending, 2014-2019e (USD MM)

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Venture capital is pouring in, developers are excited and industry players are taking note...

Investments in blockchain-related startups (USD MM)

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Effective use case execution will depend highly on strong collaboration among players in an ecosystem (financial services example)

SOURCE: Expert interviews, web search

Banks/financial institutions Growing interest in disruptive blockchain solutions with ~$400MM estimated capital market spending by 2019

Explaining blockchain use cases with few actual experiments and multiple roundtable

Blockchain ecosystem

Fintech companies Leading the innovation in connection with blockchain technology

Industry utilities/platforms ▪ Much attention from industry utilities paid

to blockchain developments due to the risk of disintermediation of utility functions

▪ Platforms interested in deploying blockchain, leading implementation

Assessing the potential of blockchain technology Non-banks

No strong focus yet, likely to grow as blockchain proliferates

Strong interest in block-chain’s evolution, certain publications (especially on Bitcoin)

Central bank

Associations Regulators

OSFI CFTC

OCC

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McKinsey has identified 7 genuine use cases and associated pain points; all of those sized could generate ~$80B to 110B in impact

SOURCE: McKinsey analysis

2 - 5

3 - 5

7 - 9

4 - 8

4 - 7

50 – 60

14 – 17

Value generated by blockchain ($B)

Identified >60 viable use cases from a database of >200 fintech startups, press clippings, and research

Focused on 24 financial services applications

Selected 7 use cases for analysis, based on initial hypothesis of potential for disruption and size of impact

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7

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Identity fraud G

Trade finance A

Cross-border B2B payments

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Cross-border P2P payments

C

Repurchase agreement transactions (repos)

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KYC / AML manage-ment

F

OTC Derivatives E

Drivers of cost today Blockchain benefits Examples of impacted players

Paper-based and labor heavy structure

Error-prone processes Capital that is locked up

in the TF processes

▪ Lower cost and operational risk, faster turn-around, increase in revenues

▪ Lower cost and fees ▪ Increased security

and speed

Paper-based High fees due to lack of

intermediary competition Capturing incorrect

receiver information

▪ Lower cost and fees from competition, increased security and transparency

Inability to net the obligations

Counter-party risk Credit sensitive repo

buyers

▪ More effective netting ▪ Lower systematic risk ▪ Reduced operational

costs

Manual and duplicative data entry and verification processes

Low visibility into transactions

▪ Reduced duplicative efforts in on-boarding customers

▪ Improved transaction monitoring

Direct losses due to fra-udulent activity (90-95%)

Fraud prevention infrastructure and processes (5-10%)

▪ Secure storage of ID credentials

▪ More secure account opening, transaction authentication

Manual and duplicative data entry and verification processes

High capital requirements

▪ Reduced operational costs and capital due to streamlined processing and settling

Application by type of bank CIB Retail Revenues Cost Capital

Impact levers

High fees and slow processing due to intermediaries

High operational costs

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Pricing/ underwriting

Risk capital & investment management

Product development and distribution

Payment & collections Claims

Policy/ administration and back offices

In Insurance, blockchains have potential for impact across the entire value chain NOT EXHAUSTIVE

1 Not all insurance-specific

Potential

Key benefits

▪ Reduce cost related to commission and sales and operations

▪ Increase trust of customers due to open, distributed system

▪ Reduce cost of operations

▪ Reuse platform for other types of insurances

▪ Include external data for (semi-) automatic pricing

▪ Reduce cost and increase speed for payments

▪ Reduce average claims cost related to – Claims

administration – Damage from fraud

and fraud detection ▪ Improve identification

of claim events

▪ Reduce admin costs ▪ Automate and

increase reliability, auditability and speed for financial instruments transactions based on defined events

▪ Reduced admin cost and speed-up process for onboarding

Potential use cases with smart contracts

▪ Offer P2P insurance via blockchain for customer to customer promotion and sales, and automated ops with smart contracts

▪ Use blockchain for P2P insurance underwriting, include external data, smart contracts and peers (humans) to determine tariff

▪ Automate payments through smart contracts evaluating conditions for paying out claims

▪ Automate claims triggering and handling with smart contracts, and e.g., with sensors (IOT)

▪ Use smart contracts to automatically determine payouts – e.g. triggering process of catastrophe swaps and bonds

Examples1

edgelogic

Allianz Risk Transfer

▪ Use blockchain as a reliable registry for on-demand / usage-based insurance or micro-insurances

▪ Using blockchain as payment infrastruc-ture (especially across multiple countries)

▪ Leverage blockchain for information about insured goods and events in order to fight fraud

▪ Use blockchain for onboarding of new customers or verification of policy-holder identity

▪ Make data available for re-insurers or other parties in a controlled way

Potential use cases

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Applications of blockchains in P&C Insurance (including true P2P insurance contracts) will improve efficiency and customer experience

Applications Shortcomings of current landscape Blockchain enhancements

▪ Claims typically processed manually, requiring extensive central validation

▪ Manual processing can introduce both decision subjectivity and errors

▪ Subsequently claims processing is slow, complex and subject to human error

▪ Automated insurance policy written into a smart contract which enforces and pays out against insurable event without manual administration

▪ Claims processed and paid on a logic-based system requiring all information to be complete

▪ Distributed validation network ensures only legitimate and complete claims are paid out on basis of independently verifiable oracle feed

▪ Claims processing and management is transparent, accurate and irrefutable

Smart contracts

▪ Tracing provenance relies upon faithful record-keeping along with item

▪ No secure documented trail back to origination of article (e.g., art, diamond)

▪ Initial provenance recorded with immutable time and date stamp and proof of existence (e.g., photograph)

▪ Subsequent ownership and location can be recorded in secure, immutable, chained history of object

Valuables provenance

▪ Growing threat from fraud based on false claims for staged incidents

▪ Claims often made against several policies held by independent insurers

▪ Fraud detection almost impossible without cross-party industry data

▪ Distributed network independently validates (by consensus) contracts and claims to be paid

▪ Network verifies true identities and rejects multiple claims for same incident

▪ Storing history of claims in distributed cross-industry database enables detection of fraudulent behavior patterns

Fraud reduction

Data continuity

▪ Consumer data is especially valuable in telematics and Usage-Based Insurance

▪ But, insurer, not customer, owns usage data and associated benefits

▪ Consumer data does not migrate with customer from one insurer to the next

▪ Consumer data exists independently of insurer ▪ Data access can be granted by consumer through their

public key to any third party ▪ Enhanced risk-assessments and underwriting made

possible by more complete behavior history

7 APPLICATIONS FOR INSURANCE INDUSTRY

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And a growing number of companies is working on blockchain use cases for insurance

SOURCE: McKinsey Panorama Database, Web search

1 Activities not necessarily limited to insurance industry 2 Different types of activities: direct/indirect investments, participation in R3 consortium or own prototypes

EXAMPLES Start-ups1

Others1

Insurers2

InsurTechs, insurers and other companies are working on blockchain use-cases for insurance Selected cases

SafeShare has launched a blockchain-based platform to register on-demand insurance in UK (underwritten by Lloyds of London) Mar 2016

Allianz announced a successful prototype to automate catastrophe swap transactions Jun 2016

Blem, a provider of reinsurance solutions, is working with z/yen group to record claims in a blockchain for accurately dividing cost between insurer and reinsurer May 2016

Tradle provides Know-your-customer application to ease and speed up onboarding processes (POC phase) Aug 2015

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Early successes have been achieved primarily by consortia working together, including in Insurance

The insurance industry is beginning to collaborate on blockchain via consortia (e.g., B3i)

Consortia are developing Proofs of Concept using distributed ledger solutions to replace some part of the traditional infrastructure to improve speed and reduce risk

Blockchain consortia

Trade Finance

Cross-border payments

Global money transfers

Clearing and settlement

Catastrophe Swaps/ Bonds

Syndicated loans and reference data processes

Engineering Insurtech

Retrocession insurance

NOT EXHAUSTIVE 7 PROOFS OF CONCEPT

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However, blockchain should be employed only under certain conditions and requirements

5 Economic benefit for participants

3 Existence in

absence of trust

1 Distributed

ledger

4 Causing

disintermediation

2 Remote

independent writers

5 key criteria for blockchain

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Shaping the regulatory environment is the biggest challenge to unlocking the potential value of blockchain

Regulatory environment challenges Key considerations

▪ Educate and involve regulators

▪ Propose solutions to unique regulatory questions

▪ Communicate regularly, especially on uses related to consumers

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Overall attitudes from NA regulators appear to be “do not harm” as distributed ledger technologies evolve

▪ Decentralized ownership

▪ International jurisdiction

▪ Encryption and user anonymity

▪ Blockchain transactions of non-digitized assets will require legal consideration of off-chain settlement

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2009 2016 2017 2020 2021 2018 2019

Future of blockchain

Block-chain solutions & Criteria for survival

100+ solutions explored

20-30 use cases tested

10-20 successful business

cases

Ages of block-chain

Only Bitcoin based solutions

3 initial hurdles ▪ View on potential benefits ($)

of use cases ▪ Relevance to, and severity of

current pain points and proof that Blockchain is the best solution

▪ Critical number of players willing to move

3 main hurdles ▪ Establishment of legal / regulatory

framework ▪ Viability of business cases (incl.

justifying costs of implementation incl. integration)

▪ Agreement on key standards and active collaboration across all required players

Momentum and hype building

Exploration of use cases

Commercial deployment

at scale

Expansion of proofs-of-concept

Bitcoin age

Dark age New era

Based on the current rate of evolution, we believe blockchain solutions could reach their full potential in the next 5 years 10

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